e-Learning Excellence with eFront Enterprise™

eFront is an internationally recognised award winning e-Learning platform providing everything you need to deliver and develop the e-Learning option in your organisation. An attractive and engaging e-course centre for employees to track and manage their own learning. In built course development and authoring tools to help your trainers develop your own course materials and content. Communication and social networking tools to support skills networking and mentorship. Skills profiling for the organisation to evaluate the outcomes of e-Learning provision.

eFront Enterprise can be used independently of SDMS V Staff Development and e-Training or as a fully integrated e-Learning extension to them. eFront Enterprise™ provides a practical framework for collecting, organising and managing employee skills, helping you track skills development as they progress and improce their abilities through a variety of learning paths and strategies.

eFront Enterprise™ offers a coherent approach to the management of the skills and learning for your organisations most valued asset - the people working in your Company.

eFront Enterprise™ builds on eFronts e-Learning platform and includes a wide range of added functionality from extended personnel, branch and group management of skills and the automatic assignment of e-Learning Courses based on these skills profiles.

	eFront:		Easy to Use and Visually Attractive:
	An Easy to use, visually attractive, SCORM Compatible (and certified) e-Learning and Human Capital Development System available for use for employees in business and students in educational institutions.		eFront was built from scratch with the end user in mind to enhance the learning experience. Users will find it easy and natural to get used to its interface where most options are self explantory.
	Technologically Advanced:		Pedagogical and Learning Concepts:
	eFront embodies the best in Web Systems Development. It is Ajax enabled, Unicode, LDAP and SCORM Compliant, as well as providing a multi lingual e-Learning Platform.		Integrated into eFront are sound pedagogical and learning concepts that guide users and keep them motivated. Skilled trainers and teachers find it easy to embed their learning methodologies into lessons developed with eFront.
	Complete:
	eFront includes a wide variety of components and tools that help you create your lesson structure and add content, build on line tests, communicate with others, track users history and progress, conduct surveys, assign projects and create certifications. And integrated with the SDMS range of Staff Development and Learning products it provides a genuinely total learning system.
	Installed:		Hosted:
	Simple and Easy to install and requiring modesty specified hardware eFront for many organisations is simple and easy to install on your own servers.		Alternatively SDMS Ltd provides a hosting service for eFront taking all the resourcing problems away from the Customer and providing eFront as a delivered service for the number of users you need.
	Licensing Options:		Standapart or Combined:
	Options are available for licensing for a single server installation, with an unlimited number of registered users providing between 250 and 300 concurrent users. Alternatively for some organisations a user licensing option provides multiple server installation with unlimited number of registered users and the concurrent users built aroung your business needs.		eFront can be implemented as a standalone system or combined with SDMS Staff Development and Learning Management for Windows and e-Training to provide a fully integrated total training and learning system.
	Total Blended Learning A Unique Combination:
	With eFront and SDMS Staff Development and e-Training, your business will be able to manage all aspects of the staff development cycle from initial planning, needs analysis, delivery - whether face to face or on line eLearning - and evaluation. Achieving the best in training and learning may require differnet learning strategies - some face to face, some work based coaching and some e-Learning. eFront with some e-Learning. eFront with SDMS Staff Development and e-Training provides you with all the options to maximise the business benefits of employee development.
New Classroom Training Module The Classroom Training Module of eFront is designed to enable Training Managers and Administrators to plan and deliver face-to-face and classroom training courses and address the day-to-day operational tasks of training administration. With eFront's e-Learning course features, it allows you to deliver all forms of training from traditional classroom based courses, through conferences, team development, on the job workplace training, workshops to e-Learning courses, providing a total blended training management system.
	SDMS Services for Installation and Configuration:		SDMS Services for Project Implementation:
	While eFront Enterprise™ is simple and easy to install, SDMS eFront Service Options provides installation and set up free of charge on initial purchase.		When you buy eFront from SDMS we provide a draft implementation plan, an on line Project Meeting to agree dates and tasks, and our standard "Getting Up and Learning with eFront" 4 hour On Line Training Course with an experienced SDMS trainer - all free of charge to get you using eFront as soon as your business needs.
	SDMS Services for Initial User and Administrator Training:		SDMS Services for Lesson Design Services and Bespoke Course Development:
	Our initial free on line training package for training and learning managers saves time and effort in getting the system up and running for learners and tutors. Advanced training options include training for system administrators and trainers in how to convert their existing training materials from Word, PowerPoint etc. to eFront using the inbuilt authoring module.		Commission us to produce e-Learning Courses for you. Services range from a complete writing service to just support for course design and materials development - reducing the time for your trainers to produce their own e-Learning lessons based on existing training materials.
	SDMS Services for Standard Courses Advice and Catalogue:		SDMS Services for Hosting:
	Advice provided on sources of e-Learning courses to meet your specific needs with standard courses available from the SDMS e-Learning Supplier Network. We will help you source your requirements by calling on experts in the field.		Where you wish your employes to access high quality e-Learning courses with eFront and don't want to bother with computers and things we provide high quality, high availability hosting services.
	SDMS Services for Support:		SDMS Bespoke Services:
	SDMS experienced support staff provide full and extensive support by telephone, fax or email during normal working week: 8.30am - 5.30pm.		Data Take On of employee, job and skills information is provided in a range of Bespoke Services to support speedy implementation of eFront.